On 6 February 2024 at 06:43, Steve Langasek wrote: | Source: gretl | Version: 2023c-2 | Severity: serious | Tags: patch pending sid trixie | Justification: library ABI skew on upgrade | User: debian-...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: time-t | | NOTICE: these changes must not be uploaded to unstable yet! | | Dear maintainer, | | As part of the 64-bit time_t transition required to support 32-bit | architectures in 2038 and beyond | (https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time), we have identified | gretl as a source package shipping runtime libraries whose ABI | either is affected by the change in size of time_t, or could not be | analyzed via abi-compliance-checker (and therefore to be on the safe | side we assume is affected). | | To ensure that inconsistent combinations of libraries with their | reverse-dependencies are never installed together, it is necessary to | have a library transition, which is most easily done by renaming the | runtime library package. | | Since turning on 64-bit time_t is being handled centrally through a change | to the default dpkg-buildflags (https://bugs.debian.org/1037136), it is | important that libraries affected by this ABI change all be uploaded close | together in time. Therefore I have prepared a 0-day NMU for gretl | which will initially be uploaded to experimental if possible, then to | unstable after packages have cleared binary NEW. | | Please find the patch for this NMU attached. | | If you have any concerns about this patch, please reach out ASAP. Although | this package will be uploaded to experimental immediately, there will be a | period of several days before we begin uploads to unstable; so if information | becomes available that your package should not be included in the transition, | there is time for us to amend the planned uploads.
Thanks, Steve. I applied the patch to my repo and committed to salsa. Gretl updates infrequently enough so that a transition to unstable is very likely to happen before a new upstream. Cheers, Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
